20   Recorded November 2, 1972

[Nelson Rains] from Santa Barbara is walking on his hands

The panel is blindfolded and it’s obvious to the audience what he’s doing, so there is no word bubble.  Rains claims that he does this for a mile or more each day, rain or shine.  He says he is preparing for a stunt in which he will walk on his hands across a narrow steel girder 700 feet in the air.  He further claims that there will be a movie, High Iron, about this accomplishment.  As far as we can tell, neither of those things would happen.

Idell Harris from Big Bear Lake, Joy Renninger, and Carol Friar of Longport bring their infant children: “We were born in Volkswagen Beetles”

Between 1964 and 1989, if a mother gave birth inside one of Volkswagen’s iconic cars, the company would give the family a $100 savings bond in the baby’s name.  Over that span, more than 400 “Beetle Babies” received the gift.  Volkswagen later expanded the program to include other models in their line. Kimberly Ann Harris was born in April, 1972. Christine Renninger was born on Christmas Day in 1971 (hence her name).  April Patricia Friar was born in May, 1970. 

Special guest Martin Milner tests the panel on their powers of observation. 

The segment appears to be about antique furniture Milner has brought to the set, but quickly dissolves into a fistfight between two stagehands.  After the staged fight, and the destruction of what were actually cheap props, Milner quizzes the panel on their recall of what had just happened.  Milner’s fame is derived from two numerically-titled TV series in which he spent a lot of time in cars.  In Route 66 (1960-64) he played Tod Styles, a young man finding adventure along the iconic titular highway.   In Adam-12 (1968-75) he played police officer Pete Malloy, patrolling the streets of Los Angeles.